Serial abuses of justice by Americas top law enforcement official should be enough to make just about any tinhorn banana republic dictator blush. Yet regarding any embarrassment evidenced by the leader of the free world not so much. Despite the fact that our attorney general has been indicted for contempt of Congress on both felony and civil charges, has repeatedly lied under oath, and has routinely turned a blind eye to laws that he is duty-bound to enforce, Mr. Holder continues to serve at the behest of his presidential mentor. At least he has so far.

Apparently not so very much of that promised transparency after all:

On September 30, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman turned down Holders Justice Department request to dismiss a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawsuit seeking Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal documents hidden by the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history.

Up until now, Obama and company have refused to do so after the president asserted executive privilege. Their position argued that the oversight committees demand for information had been settled by a February 4, 2011 letter to Congress in which Assistant Attorney General Ron Welch stated that the allegation that ATF sanctioned or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of weapons is false. DOJ pleaded that since their letter contended that they had done nothing wrong, and that there was nothing more to see following its issuance, the matter should be settled. Congress should just accept their word get over it move on.

Call them a disagreeable lot, but the House oversight committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) wasnt sufficiently trusting to do that. After they sued to obtain the outstanding records, the administration filed for dismissal. They maintained that if the lawsuit were allowed to proceed, every new document request would...

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Lets start that conversation by acknowledging we arent going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.

[but hes not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

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posted on 10/06/2013 11:56:36 AM PDT
by SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)

Serial abuses of justice by Americas top law enforcement official should be enough to make just about any tinhorn banana republic dictator blush. Yet regarding any embarrassment evidenced by the leader of the free world... not so much. Despite the fact that our attorney general has been indicted for contempt of Congress on both felony and civil charges, has repeatedly lied under oath, and has routinely turned a blind eye to laws that he is duty-bound to enforce, Mr. Holder continues to serve... On September 30, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman turned down Holders Justice Department request to dismiss a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawsuit seeking "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal documents hidden by the self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history".

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posted on 10/06/2013 11:57:19 AM PDT
by SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)

These guys have made a big mistake. The really damaging revelations about Fast and Furious are going to come out at the same time as the IRS and Benghazi scandals and at a time when Obama’s personal popularity is going to be seriously eroded

Maybe there are too many higher ups involved in the gun trade and maybe there are connections to similar corrupt politicos on our side of the border. Remember the Sinaloa cartel guy on trial in Chicago who claims that the Chicago pols were working with them.

Maybe its me that’s confused. This thread is about the Adaministration’s attack on the second amendment when they shipped masses of guns into Mexico and the absence of accountability for this action. - No, its not me.

Your post about Paul suggests to me that you are flying cover for President Trail of Blood and Attorney General My People. Why don’t you give it a rest and maybe post about Paul, when the thread is about oh, say, immigration?

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posted on 10/06/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT
by sgtyork
(The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)

Good impeachment article, altough no one will seriously raise the issue. I also believe that impeachment is where Ted Cruz is headed, even if there are not enough Senate votes to sustain it on Obama and Holder.It needs to be done so that the nation knows just what Obama has wrought.

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